Non Emergency Vehicles Exempt from Speeding
Dear Derbyshire Constabulary,
Please confirm that 207 Derbyshire police officers had action taken against them last year for various driving offences.
Could you please give me a breakdown of these various offences by supplying the category of offences held and the total recorded against each offence for last year. Where possible please supply the rank of officers concerned.
How many of these 207 were referred to the Professional Standards Department?
How many of them resulted in fines, fixed penalty notices or court action?
Yours faithfully,
Talbot Munce
Dear Mr Munce
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
I write in connection with your request for information as shown below.
Please confirm that 207 Derbyshire police officers had action taken
against them last year for various driving offences.
Could you please give me a breakdown of these various offences by
supplying the category of offences held and the total recorded against
each offence for last year. Where possible please supply the rank of
officers concerned.
How many of these 207 were referred to the Professional Standards
Department?
How many of them resulted in fines, fixed penalty notices or court action?
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Mr Munce,
Thank you for your recent FOI request which is receiving attention.
However in order to enable me to respond accordingly could I please seek
clarification as to what time period you mean when you refer to ‘last
year’. For example is it the 2012 calendar year or the 2012/13 financial
year. As you will appreciate both may throw up different answers.
I also have to add that pending receipt of this clarification I have
placed your request on hold. Additionally if I have not received this
clarification within 20 working days I will close the request down on the
basis that the information is no longer required.
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Dear Freedom of Information Office,
Please submit the information that is held regarding my request from the past 12 months. Or the '2012 calendar year' as you refer to it.
Yours sincerely,
Talbot Munce
Mr Munce,
Thank you for making a Freedom of Information request to the Derbyshire Constabulary.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours sincerely,
Kevin Lea
Freedom of Information Officer
Derbyshire Constabulary, Police Headquarters, Butterley Hall, Ripley, Derbyshire. DE5 3RS
Tel: 101 Direct Dial: 0300 122 5487
Email: [email address]
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Dear Derbyshire Constabulary,
I am writing to request an internal review of Derbyshire Constabulary's handling of my FOI request 'Non Emergency Vehicles Exempt from Speeding'.
I do not accept the reasons you have given for rejecting the request.
Adopting a pseudonym to run a humour website critical of the police was a necessary step to protect myself from their inevitable persecution. A fact that you would be aware of having read the 'About Me' page at www.crimebodge.com. The humorous comment that you quote from my website - which is entirely separate from my FOI request - is clear indication that the name 'Talbot Munce' is a pseudonym. Using a pseudonym to make FOI requests is perfectly lawful and the fact that we are corresponding as such is further proof that I am 'a real person'.
Furthermore, you have satisfied a number of earlier FOI requests I made under the same name without prior research or objection. I provide the URL http://crimebodge.com as a backup correspondence address, if for any reason the primary 'Whatdotheyknow' URL address should fail and should not be considered as part of my FOI request.
Your refusal to comply is more likely due to a clear disdain for the contents of www.crimbeodge.com. Reinterpreting ICO guidelines as an attempt to retaliate is an abuse of both your position and the law.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/no...
Yours faithfully,
Talbot Munce
www,crimebodge,com
Mr Munce,
Thank you for your email concerning the above.
As previously stated Section 8 (1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires the name (real name) of an applicant in order for the request to be deemed as valid. This is a position backed by the Information Commissioner and the link I provided in my initial response will take you to the specific guidance.
Forgive me for not having read your web site in any great detail previously but having done so recently I am now satisfied that Talbot Munce, for whatever reason, is not a real name; a fact you have reconfirmed below.
Given that the request is not valid under law it does not fall within the scope of the Act. As such I will not be arranging an internal review. However, if you supply proof of identity as requested I will be happy to review my decision.
Thank you.
Kevin Lea
Freedom of Information Officer
Derbyshire Constabulary, Police Headquarters, Butterley Hall, Ripley, Derbyshire. DE5 3RS
Tel: 101 Direct Dial: 0300 122 5487
Email: [email address]
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